English PEN Modern Literature Festival

April 3rd, 2016

On 2nd April 2016 at Rich Mix, London I read a work in response to the unfair imprisonment of Qatari poet Mohammed al-‘Ajami, as part of the English PEN Modern Literature Festival. The was the first ever English PEN Modern Literature Festival and saw 30 contemporary UK-based writers present new works in tribute to writers at risk around the world. #penfestuk

Writers poets, novelists, playwrights and artists came together to continue English Pen's relationship with innovative contemporary literature over an extraordinary day where each of the writers presented brand new poetry, text, reportage & performance on a day that celebrated and evidenced the struggle of fellow writers around the world, in solidarity.